Washington · Private foundation
The Babare Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $290k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations The Babare Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 16 | $290k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $222k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $200k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $165k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $116k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $163k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $135k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $145k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agnus Dei Evangelical Lutheran Church | $165,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Diabetes Assoc of Pierce County | $85,000 | 8 | 11% |
| Violet Sees | $82,500 | 8 | 21% |
| Gig Harbor Peninsula Historical Soc | $75,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Harbor Wildwatch | $65,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Pediatric Interim Care Center | $65,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Mary Bridge Children's Foundation | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwest Watershed Institute | $55,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Sand Man Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Narrows Baseball Club | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agnus Dei Evangelical Lutheran Church | $165,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Diabetes Assoc of Pierce County | $85,000 | 8 | 11% |
| Violet Sees | $82,500 | 8 | 21% |
| Gig Harbor Peninsula Historical Soc | $75,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Harbor Wildwatch | $65,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Pediatric Interim Care Center | $65,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Mary Bridge Children's Foundation | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Northwest Watershed Institute | $55,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Sand Man Foundation | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Narrows Baseball Club | $30,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Amara | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Emergency Food Network of Tacoma and Pierce County | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Harbor Christian Center | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gig Harbor Tides Scholarship Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 3% |
| Humane Society for Tacoma Pierce County Society Prevention Cruelty Animals | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ducks Unlimited Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gig Harbor Peninsula Fish | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| St Leos Parish | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Gig Harbor Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Communities in Schools of Peninsula | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Nicholas Church | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($600k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Babare Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Greater Tacoma Community Foundation · Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn · Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc · The Russell Family Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Meacham Foundation · Sequoia Foundation · Fuchsg & M Fdn Tai · Gary E Milgard Family Foundation- Sunshine · Multicare Health System · Seattle Foundation · Anne Hampton Foundation
How this is measured
About The Babare Foundation
- How much does The Babare Foundation give?
- The Babare Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $290,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Babare Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (26%), Health (20%), Human Services (14%).
- Who are The Babare Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Agnus Dei Evangelical Lutheran Church ($165k), Diabetes Assoc of Pierce County ($85k), Violet Sees ($83k).
- Does The Babare Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Babare Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Babare Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Tacoma Community Foundation, Kilworth Florence Char Tr Fndn, Ben B Cheney Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Babare Foundation based?
- The Babare Foundation is based in WA.
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